Improvement in stump-joints for carriages



F. B. MORSE.

Carriage Joint. I

No. 96,024, Patented Oct. 19, 1869.

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F. B. MORSE, OF PLANTSVIL'LE, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF ANDPLANTS MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

Letters Patent No. 96,024, dated October 19, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN STUMP-JOINIS FOR. CARRIAGES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and makingpart of thesama.

To all whom it-md/y concern:

Be it known that I, F. B. Monsn, of Plantsville,

in the county of Hartford, and State of Connecticut, have invented a newImprovement in Stump-Joints for Carriages; and I do hereby declare thefollowing, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, andthe letters of referencemarked thereon, to be a full, .clear, and exactdescription of the same, and

which said drawings constitute part of this specifica-.

tion, and represent in- Figure 1, a side view;

Figure 2, an end view; Figure 3, a sectional view of one part;

Figure 4, a sectional view of the other part detached; and in Figure 5,an edge view of the joint open.

This invention relates to an. improvement in the joints used in bracesfor supporting carriage tops, and

common] y called stump-joints, being formed as an article ofmanufacture, with a joint and-two stumps, to which the braces are to bewelded and The invention consists in forming upon one part two ears,with a space between the two, and upon the other part a single ear, soas to fit in between the two ears of the other part, and the said singleear extended out to near the edge of its stump,-and the other partrecessed to receive the extended portion of the ear, whereby the jointis greatly strengthened.

To enable others skilled in the ad; to make and use my invention, 1 willproceed to describe the same, as illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings. A is one part, and

B, the other part. On the part A, I form two ears, a a, in the usual\Vitnesses:

manner, with this-difference, that between the ears and into the. bodyof the stump, 1 form a recess, d, extending nearly to the edge of thestump, as seen in figs. 2 and 3, and upon the other part B, I form asingle ear, 0, corresponding in width to the space between the two earsa, and so as to be set together, as seen in fig. 1.

The ear 0, instead of being cut awa as denoted in broken lines, fig. 4,extends backnearly to the edge 'of the stump, as seen at f, figs. 2 and4, corresponding to the recess d of the other stump.

This extension f 0f the ear 0 strengthensthat ear by so much as theextra attachment to the stump.

The chief advantage of this construction in the manufacture is, that weare enabled to use a larger mill in cutting the space between the twocars.

When the joint is folded, as to the position seen in fig. 1, that is,when the carriage-top is thrown back,

the extended part f appears, but when the joint is,

set forth. 7

F. B. MORSE.

A. J. TIBBITS, J. H. SHUMWAY.

